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Quotes About Reckless

one unquestionable virtue in England, which is wanting in China. The Chinese authorities kill thousands of innocent people, on the most frivolous pretexts. We, in England, are free from all guilt of that kind—we commit no such dreadful crime—we abhor reckless bloodshed, with all our hearts.
~ Wilkie Collins
There are not many things finer in our murderous species than this noble curiosity, this restless and reckless passion to understand.
~ Will Durant
He disdains such cowardly acts as looking in wing mirrors or using his indicators.
~ William Dalrymple
He disdains such cowardly acts as looking in wing mirrors or using his indicators. His Ambassador is his chariot, his klaxon his sword. Weaving into the oncoming traffic, playing 'chicken' with the other taxis, Balvinder Singh is a Raja of the Road.
~ William Dalrymple
Walter drained more than half of the scalding hot liquid in one foolhardy gulp, utterly unmindful of his burnt tongue.
~ Christa Faust
Okay," Nina said. "We're all thinking it, but I'm going to say it. That was really, really stupid. If I hadn't brought my gun, we'd all be dead.
~ Christa Faust
He knew he would be crazy to take that kind of risk, but he'd also be crazy not to.
~ Christa Faust
Does Medea still have the power to retaliate, or has she been rendered harmless? Fear, admiration, envy, lust and hatred waltz hand-in-hand, for whatever else she is, Medea is not a nobody: beautiful, high-ranking, reckless, intelligent and skilled, she cannot be simply dismissed.
~ Christa Wolf
7. 3. 12. 31. 208: Reckless disrespect of the lightless hours will not be tolerated.
~ Jasper Fforde
Ich najlepsze historie opowiadajÄ… o nierozwa?nych, o oryginaÅ'ach, którzy zostali ukarani. No bo tak: tak wÅ'aÅ›nie jest i nikt nie po wie, ?e jest inaczej.
~ Jean Paul Sartre
Louise, I would gladly fire the past for you, go and not look back. I have been reckless before, never counting the cost, oblivious to the cost. Now, I've done the sums ahead. I know what it will mean to redeem myself from the accumulations of a lifetime. I know and I don't care. You set before me a space uncluttered by association. It might be a void or it might be a release. Certainly I want to take the risk. I want to take the risk because the life I have stored up is going mouldy.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I am alive in 21st Century America. I have a voice. Let it serve as a corrective to the violent and reckless power that stands against the force of love.
~ Tracy K. Smith
Of course these gifts were reckless extravagances for a family that was never more than a couple of dollars and a few days away from hunger, but that's how poor people cope with being marooned in poverty while all around them flows the frothy stream of the consumer culture.
~ Trevanian
Great," Glory said. "How about a trail of cow parts, too? And a map of where we're going? Or perhaps we could set this part of the forest on fire, just to make sure everyone knows how to find us. Would you like me to spell out 'DRAGONETS WUZ HERE' in giant rocks?
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Religion is the most important problem of life, and we can ignore it as little as a reckless storage of dynamite in crowded parts of great cities.
~ Paul Carus
I am going to speak some reckless words, and I want you to listen recklessly.
~ David Deida
O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the hearts of desperate men!
~ William Shakespeare
Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.
~ Homer
Still, even idiots get lucky sometimes. I felt lucky tonight. Or maybe just reckless.
~ Lilith Saintcrow
They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous.
~ Lillie Langtry
I didn't care about anything. And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk. You can do anything. Ask Kevin.
~ Lionel Shriver
I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12.
~ Gail Porter
I really am guilty, of many somethings, all of them lethal and very enjoyable and technically not quite legal.
~ Jeff Lindsay
We were reckless with the implications
~ Jeffrey Eugenides